If you equate a movie’s worth with the number of rounds flying and bodies lying, then look no further. ‘The Replacement Killers’ delivers all of the bloodshed and firearms the violent-loving public has come to expect. With director Antoine Fuqua, mastermind of Coolio’s ‘Gangsta’s Paradise,’ and executive producer John Woo, director of last year’s action film ‘Face/Off,’ the end result is an action film with lots of gangsters.’The Replacement Killers’ tells the story of an assassin’s blood-soaked attempt to gain redemption from his past. Starring Chow Yun-Fat, veteran of over 70 films you’ve probably never heard of, plays John Lee, an assassin with a secret debt to Chinatown’s mob. Without wasting any time, the action begins with John coolly gunning down a deserving criminal and several of his lackeys. As in many other action films, you can be assured that the killings will progressively increase in both intensity and numbers.After hundreds more rounds are fired and another criminal lies dead, the mob boss Mr. Wei makes his introduction. As menacing as Mike Myers character Dr. Evil, he tells John that he must avenge the death of his mobster son with one last assassination. Typical of the good-at-heart assassin, John can’t bring himself to pull the trigger. Only later do we find out that Mr. Wei achieves his revenge through the families of his enemies and that police detective Stan Zedkov’s (Michael Rooker) cute little son was the target. Now a sworn enemy of Mr. Wei, both John and his family in China are in imminent danger.Needing a fake passport, John seeks the aid of Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino), a document forger with a significant criminal past. It’s a good thing that action takes precedence over dialogue in ‘The Replacement Killers’ because Sorvino’s performance is about as shallow as it was in ‘Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.’ With the thin plot now out of the way, the bulk of the killings can begin. Several thousand rounds and three failed assassination attempts later, Mr. Wei decides to bring in ‘the replacement killers’. With ever increasing plugs for Beretta handguns, John double fists semi-autos as he guns down every bad guy in range. The predictable plot then comes to an inevitable showdown in which Chow should have been killed several times over by one of the many bullets fired at him. Sticking with the standard shoot-em-up formula we have all come to love, John replies to Mr. Wei’s final comment ‘your family will die,’ with the weak one liner, ‘Not in your lifetime.’Although I can’t foresee any awards for their performances, both Sorvino and Chow Yun-Fat give all you could expect between the gun fire and dead bodies. If your looking for non-stop killing action, then ‘The Replacement Killers’ is your cup of tea. With a death count of 24 bad guys, two policemen, and one blond shopper, you definitely get your money’s worth. For those of you who must have a plausible plot, substantial dialogue, or real acting, I’d suggest that you see anything besides this.